[Streaming]: Chris Carter – “Blissters”

Eighteen years after Caged, British musician Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle) has announced the release of a new solo album. Chris Carter’s Chemistry Lessons Volume One is out on March 30th via Mute Records. “Blissters” is the first excerpt.

“If there’s an influence on the album, it’s definitely ‘60s radiophonic,” Carter says. “Over the last few years I’ve also been listening to old English folk music, almost like a guilty pleasure, and so some of tracks on the album hark back to an almost ingrained DNA we have for those kinds of melodies. They’re not dissimilar to nursery rhymes in some ways.”

He also explains, “Sleazy and I had worked together on ways of developing a sort of artificial singing using software and hardware. This was me trying to take it a step further. I’ve taken lyrics, my own voice or people’s voices from a collection that I’d put together with Sleazy, and I’ve chopped them up and done all sorts of weird things with them.”